Whose ‘Monuments’ Survive?

Despots throughout history have “won” history by destroying the history of others and inserting their own version (i.e., revisionism). As noted in the movie, “Monuments Men,” based on a true story, this is exactly what Adolf Hitler intended to do with the history of the French, English, and many other peoples, meanwhile looting for himself and his “Thousand-Year Reich” the fruits of others’ accomplishments. As the main character in the movie explains,

“They would tell us, with this many people dying, who cares about art? But they’re wrong, because that’s exactly what we’re fighting for, for our culture and for our way of life. You can wipe out a generation of people, you can burn their homes to the ground, but somehow they’ll still come back. But if you destroy their achievements, and the history, then it’s like they never existed — just ash, floating. That’s what Hitler wants, and it’s the one thing we simply can’t allow.”

There are sinister forces at work in America today seeking likewise to “win” history by quashing anybody’s history and accomplishments that do not fit their politically-correct, Totalitarian narrative, deriding and attacking not only the Confederacy and its flag, but the Founding Fathers of America, the Ten Commandments, and any other ideas that oppose them, in hopes of erasing them altogether from the public consciousness.